Musicians Park, Shekvetili: Sculptures That Play Their Own Music

Musicians Park Tours

The Musicians Park in Shekvetili occupies a forested coastal strip along the Black Sea in the Guria region of Georgia — the country in the South Caucasus — between Batumi to the south and Ureki to the north, beside the Black Sea Arena concert venue. It's one of the more genuinely original public attractions on Georgia's western coast: an open-air sculpture park dedicated to musicians, where each bronze or metal figure plays that artist's music as you approach. You walk between the trees of a eucalyptus grove, encounter likenesses ranging from Georgian folk and classical figures to internationally recognized icons of 20th-century popular music, and hear each one's signature song through a speaker as you draw near. The combination is more successful than it might sound in description, and it's entirely unlike anything else in the area.

What is the Musicians Park?

The Musicians Park is an open-air park in Shekvetili, Guria, on Georgia's Black Sea coast, opened in 2016 beside the Black Sea Arena. It features around 35–40 sculptures of famous Georgian and international musicians set in a eucalyptus grove, and its signature feature is interactive: each statue has a speaker that plays the musician's best-known song as you walk up to it. It's free, family-friendly, shaded, and takes about 30–60 minutes to walk. It's one of several attractions clustered in the Shekvetili area, about 45–70 km north of Batumi.

The sculptures that sing

The park's defining feature is that the sculptures play music. Each figure stands beside a speaker (with an information panel and a bench) that switches on as visitors approach, playing a signature piece from that musician's repertoire — so the walk becomes a sequence of short musical encounters rather than a silent sculpture stroll. Opened in 2016 alongside the neighboring Black Sea Arena, the park began with around two dozen metal sculptures and has grown to roughly 35–40.

Bronze statues of celebrated Georgian musicians in modern and traditional dress in the Musicians' Park at Shekvetili, Georgia — The park honours Georgia's own music as warmly as the world's: singers and folk musicians in both concert dress and traditional Georgian costume stand alongside the international legends.

The range of subjects is deliberately eclectic, mixing Georgian musicians of national importance with international figures whose music crosses cultural and linguistic boundaries. The Georgian figures span the classical and folk traditions — names associated with Georgian music such as Vano Sarajishvili, Revaz Lagidze, and the composer Viktor Dolidze — and Georgia's distinctive polyphonic singing tradition (recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) sits in the background of that national selection. The international figures span the major popular and classical traditions: the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Whitney Houston, and Jimi Hendrix among the popular icons, and Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart among the classical composers. Encountering these likenesses — and hearing "My Way" or "What a Wonderful World" drift through a Georgian coastal forest — produces the slightly surreal, genuinely charming quality that is the park's particular atmosphere.

A bronze statue of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart playing the violin in the Musicians' Park at Shekvetili, Georgia — The park spans centuries of music: here Mozart, violin in hand, stands among the classical masters — Bach and Beethoven are close by — a short walk from the rock and pop legends.

The setting and the experience

The forest setting is one of the park's strongest practical assets. The coastal woodland here — a eucalyptus grove in the humid, mild climate of this Black Sea coastline — provides dense shade through the warmer months, which makes the walking paths comfortable to explore in the heat of July and August, when the exposed beach can be hard going. The park doesn't have direct sea views from most sections, but the sea air is present throughout, giving the sculpture-discovery walk the feel of a seaside woodland stroll. The paths are well maintained and relatively flat, so the park is accessible to visitors of all ages and mobility levels, and the sculptures are illuminated at night, with toilets at both entrances.

A bronze statue of Elvis Presley with a guitar and microphone, lit at night in the Musicians' Park at Shekvetili, Georgia — Lit against the dark eucalyptus, Elvis Presley catches the park at its most atmospheric — dusk, when the uplights come on and the sculptures seem to step out of the trees.

The interactive, musical character makes the park especially effective with children and with visitors who would not ordinarily seek out a sculpture park — hearing the statues "perform" turns a passive walk into active discovery. Walking time is flexible, from a roughly thirty-minute circuit of the main route to a more leisurely hour spent lingering at the figures whose music you want to hear in full. There are no food or drink outlets inside, so it's worth bringing water, especially in summer.

A bronze statue of Michael Jackson mid-pose, lit at dusk in the Musicians' Park at Shekvetili, Georgia — Michael Jackson caught mid-move — one of the pop legends among the park's 37 sculptures, each of which plays the artist's music when a visitor steps near.

The park works particularly well as a stop during coastal travel — a break on a journey between Batumi and Kutaisi or Tbilisi that offers something other than a beach, a café, or a fuel station, and a reason to pause in a part of Guria most travelers would otherwise drive straight through.

The Shekvetili cluster

The Musicians Park is one of several attractions concentrated in the developing coastal resort area of Shekvetili, which has seen significant tourism investment in recent years. Close by are the large Shekvetili Dendrological Park (a roughly 60-hectare arboretum of giant transplanted trees, exotic plants, and bird aviaries), the Georgia in Miniatures Park (scale models of the country's monuments), the Tsitsinatela amusement park, and the Black Sea Arena concert venue right next door. (Note that the Musicians Park, the Miniatures Park, and the Dendrological Park are separate attractions, even though tour operators sometimes bundle them together — they're clustered in the same area rather than being one site.) Together they make Shekvetili a varied half-day or more of family-friendly leisure, quite different in character from the culturally intense monuments of inland Georgia.

The coastal location puts Shekvetili within easy reach of Ureki — the magnetic black-sand beach resort a short way north — and Kobuleti and Batumi to the south, making the park a natural inclusion in any western-Georgia coastal itinerary combining beach time with the cultural and natural sites of Guria and Adjara.

Practical information

Location: Shekvetili, Ozurgeti Municipality, Guria, on the Black Sea coast, beside the Black Sea Arena (between Ureki and Kobuleti).
Getting there: By car on the coastal route between Batumi and Kutaisi, roughly 45–70 km north of Batumi (about an hour); coastal marshrutkas pass the Shekvetili area, though some take the bypass highway, so confirm the route.
Hours: Open daily; sculptures are lit at night.
Admission: Commonly reported as free; confirm locally, as policies can change.
Time needed: About 30–60 minutes; no food/drink outlets inside, so bring water. Easily combined with the neighboring Shekvetili attractions.

It's an open-air park on Georgia's Black Sea coast at Shekvetili, in the Guria region, opened in 2016 beside the Black Sea Arena. It features around 35–40 sculptures of famous Georgian and international musicians set in a eucalyptus grove — and its signature feature is that each statue has a speaker that plays the musician's best-known song as you approach, turning a walk through the park into a musical journey. It's free, shaded, family-friendly, and takes about 30–60 minutes.

A deliberately eclectic mix of Georgian and international figures. The international side includes popular icons like the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Whitney Houston, and Jimi Hendrix, plus classical composers such as Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart. The Georgian figures include nationally important musicians like Vano Sarajishvili, Revaz Lagidze, and the composer Viktor Dolidze. Each sculpture plays a signature piece from that artist as you walk up to it.

It's in Shekvetili, Ozurgeti Municipality, in the Guria region, on the Black Sea coast next to the Black Sea Arena, roughly 45–70 km (about an hour) north of Batumi on the coastal route toward Kutaisi. You can drive, take a taxi, or use a coastal marshrutka — though confirm the route, as some minibuses take a bypass highway away from the parks. It's close to the Dendrological Park, the Miniatures Park, and the Tsitsinatela amusement park.

For families and music lovers especially, yes — the interactive "singing statues" are genuinely charming and unlike anything else on the coast, and it's a pleasant, shaded, easy walk. It's a light, fun attraction rather than a major sight, so it's best as a stop on a coastal journey or bundled with the other Shekvetili parks rather than a destination in itself. The mix of recognizable world icons and Georgian musicians, each playing their music, is what makes it memorable.

No — they're separate attractions in the same area, which sometimes causes confusion because tour operators bundle them. The Musicians Park is the sculpture park (by the Black Sea Arena) where statues play music; the Shekvetili Dendrological Park is a large, separate arboretum of giant trees, exotic plants, and bird aviaries. The Georgia in Miniatures Park and the Tsitsinatela amusement park are also nearby. They're easy to visit together, but each is its own site.